RESOLVED FIXED Bug 214181
RegExp sticky not matching alternates correctly, ignoring lastIndex requirement 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214181
Summary RegExp sticky not matching alternates correctly, ignoring lastIndex requirement
eoind
Reported 2020-07-10 04:52:42 PDT
Created attachment 403958 [details] Screenshot of Safari console Regular expressions sticky flag is not working correctly when used with alternates (|) Demonstration: (In Safari 13 JS console) Entering `/a|aa/y.exec("_a")` returns `["a"]` when it should return `null`. This is because matches should be restricted to starting at lastIndex which in this case is index 0. Chrome, Firefox and Edge all correctly return `null` Further proof that this is a bug can be seen as follows. Obviously /a|aa/ should be exactly the same as /(a|aa)/ as capturing groups are not relevant. But entering `/(a|aa)/y.exec("_a")` returns `null`. Similarly wrapping the rhs of the alternate expression shouldn't affect the result but `/a|(aa)/y.exec("_a")` also correctly returns `null`. This bug seems related to this bug from 2010: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48102
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Screenshot of Safari console (27.33 KB, image/png)
2020-07-10 04:52 PDT, eoind 		no flags
Details
Patch (6.54 KB, patch)
2020-08-06 21:40 PDT, Michael Saboff 		ysuzuki: review+
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Radar WebKit Bug Importer
Comment 1 2020-07-10 12:47:51 PDT
<rdar://problem/65357986>
Michael Saboff
Comment 2 2020-08-06 21:39:36 PDT
Thanks for the bug report.
Michael Saboff
Comment 3 2020-08-06 21:40:03 PDT
Created attachment 406153 [details] Patch
Yusuke Suzuki
Comment 4 2020-08-06 21:51:37 PDT
Comment on attachment 406153 [details] Patch r=me
Michael Saboff
Comment 5 2020-08-07 08:51:35 PDT
Committed r265373: <https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/265373>
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